Law in the Service of Human Dignity

Essays in Honour of Florentino Feliciano

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Published December 12, 2005 by Cambridge University Press .
Written in English

Subjects:

• International economic & trade law,
• Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law,
• General,
• Legal Reference / Law Profession,
• Law,
• Essays,
• Law / General

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Edition Notes

Contributions	Steve Charnovitz (Editor), Debra P. Steger (Editor), Peter Van den Bossche (Editor)
The Physical Object
Format	Hardcover
Number of Pages	448
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL7766741M
ISBN 10	0521852536
ISBN 10	9780521852531

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Human Dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights and respect because of a particular status that he or she had. So, appointment to par-ticular public offi ces brought with it dignitas. As Cancik writes, the term ‘ denotes wor-thiness, the outer aspect of a person’s social role which evokes respect, and embodies. Human dignity is the fundamental principle of the German constitution. Article 1, paragraph 1 reads: "Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority." Human dignity is thus mentioned even before the right to life. This has a significant impact on German law-making and jurisdiction in both serious and.

2. The Responsibility to Respect: Victims and Human Dignity at the International Criminal Court Tod Lindberg 3. The UN Secretary-General and Human Dignity: The Case of Kofi Annan Abiodun Williams 4. Regional Security Organizations and Human Dignity Chester A. Crocker 5. Inclusive Growth, Institutions, and the Underground Economy Anoop Singh 6. In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights, relating these ideas to current issues in ethics, law, and bioethics. Combining social history, history of ideas, moral theology, applied ethics, and political theory, Barilan tells the story of human. Human Dignity and American Employment Law, 43 U. RICH. L. REV. () Introduction: The Employment and Labor Law Professor as Public Intellectual: Sharing Our Work with the World, 41 SUFFOLK. L. REV. () Workplace Bullying and Ethical Leadership, 1 J. VALUES BASED LEADERSHIP 48 (Summer/Fall ).

Book Description. This book argues that human dignity and law stand in a privileged relationship with one another. Law must be understood as limited by the demands made by human dignity. Conversely, human dignity cannot be properly understood without clarifying . Ernst Bloch (), one of the most original and influential of contemporary European thinkers and a founder of the Frankfurt School, has left his mark on a range of fields from philosophy and social theory to aesthetics and theology. Natural Law and Human Dignity, the first of his major works to appear in English is unique in its attempt to get beyond the usual oppositions between the. The notion of human dignity is pervasive in political and philosophical discourse, but it can have various different meanings and in some contexts may have little determinate meaning at all. It is often invoked on both sides of the debate about the permissibility of assisting others to die. This chapter canvasses and critically evaluates various ways of understanding the concept human dignity Author: Jeff Mcmahan.